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Morning Round-Up: Friday 18 January

A lawyer’s amazingly detailed analysis of Bilbo’s contract in The Hobbit [Wired] Former Leeds University…

Jan 18 2013 9:18am
Morning Round-Up: Monday 14 January

Allen & Overy chief backs apprenticeships “so long as standards are upheld” [The Independent] Drop…

Jan 14 2013 9:22am
‘I Look Forward To Meeting You On 31 Sept As Well’: Cambridge Law Student Taunts ‘Sloppy’ Law Firm Grad Recruiters

As a strategy to land a job, Sebastian Salek’s decision to pen an article for…

Jan 8 2013 11:36am
End Of The Day Round-Up

Lap dancer loses sacking claim [The Independent] Matrix silk overturns Stringfellows stripper decision [The Lawyer]…

Dec 21 2012 7:35pm
Morning Round-Up: Wednesday 19 December

Posters of offensive messages on Twitter or Facebook less likely to face criminal charges, under…

Dec 19 2012 9:22am
End Of The Day Round-Up

“The Bill of Rights Commission reports tomorrow. Please, please can we all try to be…

Dec 17 2012 6:58pm

End Of The Day Round-Up

Gary McKinnon will face no UK charges [CPS Blog] Margaret Moran’s lawyer, Jim Sturman QC,…

Dec 14 2012 7:01pm
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What Will Replace The Fading Dreams Of City Law Megabucks And Criminal Bar Glamour?

This is the central question that the panel will be discussing at Legal Cheek‘s Google…

Dec 5 2012 9:36am
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Morning Round-Up: Wednesday 5 December

Free the Press, free the Judges [The Independent] Law firms: the priciest partnerships [The Economist]…

Dec 5 2012 8:37am
Morning Round-Up: Tuesday 4 December

Google ‘should face libel laws over blogging site’ [Metro] Philadelphia judge ‘hangs himself after separating…

Dec 4 2012 9:23am
End Of The Day Round-Up

“Today’s score on Twitter: @Pontifex 1 – 2 Royal Family. The Vatican easily out-newsed on…

Dec 3 2012 7:03pm
End Of The Day Round-Up

Porn producers face legal action over Fifty Shades of Grey adaptation [Metro] Office of judicial…

Nov 30 2012 8:26pm
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Morning Round-Up: Friday 30 November

The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers [The Spectator] I’m a barrister,…

Nov 30 2012 9:13am
Morning Round-Up: Wednesday 28 November

Can you get around Facebook’s terms of service by posting some legal-sounding mumbo-jumbo on your…

Nov 28 2012 9:37am
Morning Round-Up: Tuesday 27 November

Milking: an udderly bizarre student trend [The Guardian] Leveson Inquiry will be shelved or re-assigned…

Nov 27 2012 9:25am
Morning Round-Up: Tuesday 20 November

Clarke’s secret courts belong in a repressive regime and undemocratic society warn lawyers [Mail Online]…

Nov 20 2012 9:16am
Morning Round-Up: Friday 16 November

The future: applying for training contracts and pupillages via Facebook? [Forbes] Lord Neuberger’s speech on…

Nov 16 2012 9:37am
End Of The Day Round-Up

The danger lurking in laws to end cyberbullying [Legal Cheek’s associate editor Emily Jupp in…

Nov 15 2012 6:47pm

Morning Round-Up: Friday 18 January